{"id":96,"date":"2017-08-12T05:38:44","date_gmt":"2017-08-12T05:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/medical-centre\/?p=96"},"modified":"2017-08-12T06:36:51","modified_gmt":"2017-08-12T06:36:51","slug":"the-diagnosis-and-management-of-scarlet-fever-in-primary-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/medical-centre\/2017\/08\/12\/the-diagnosis-and-management-of-scarlet-fever-in-primary-care\/","title":{"rendered":"The diagnosis and management of Scarlet Fever in primary care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An article from the Department of Primary Care and Public Health published in the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/17571472.2017.1365677\">London Journal of Primary Care<\/a>\u00a0discusses the diagnosis and management of Scarlet Fever. There has been a recent increase in the incidence of scarlet fever with most cases presenting in General Practice and Emergency Departments. Cases present with a distinctive macro-papular rash, usually in children. In patients who have the typical symptoms, a prescription of a suitable antibiotic such as phenoxymethylpenicillin (Penicillin V) should be made immediately to reduce the risk of complications and the spread of infection.<\/p>\n<p><b>A typical presentation of scarlet fever<\/b><br \/>\nAn 8-year-old girl is brought to see you at your practice. She has a sore throat, abdominal pain and has been vomiting. Her health was fine until two days ago. Initially, she noticed pain on swallowing and had a temperature of 38 \u00b0C. Her parents decided to seem medical advice once they noticed the \u2018sandpaper-like\u2019 rash on her trunk and the inside of her elbows. When you examine her tongue, the enlarged papillae become immediately obvious giving it a \u2018strawberry\u2019 like appearance. Petechiae are also visible on her soft palate. Her anterior-cervical nodes are swollen and tender.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/17571472.2017.1365677\">London Journal of Primary Care<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>DOI:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1080\/17571472.2017.1365677\">http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1080\/17571472.2017.1365677<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An article from the Department of Primary Care and Public Health published in the\u00a0London Journal of Primary Care\u00a0discusses the diagnosis and management of Scarlet Fever. There has been a recent increase in the incidence of scarlet fever with most cases presenting in General Practice and Emergency Departments. Cases present with a distinctive macro-papular rash, usually [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[404],"tags":[261193],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","tag-scarlet-fever"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/medical-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/medical-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/medical-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/medical-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/medical-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/medical-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/medical-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions\/102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/medical-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/medical-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/medical-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}